The petition letter explains the reason for the proposed name change is to “put pressure on members of Trump’s administration to take real a stand for the health and safety of our world”.

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The letter reads: “The Trump administration is on a fast track setting climate progress back, which will only exacerbate the effect of future storms.

“Even Ivanka Trump, who promised to try to influence her father on certain issues like climate change, has quietly accepted the administration’s lack of action on this very serious issue.”

It continues: “Ivanka Trump can say what she wants about climate change, but as long as she quietly stands back, she remains complicit in the destruction we all face at the hands of her father’s administration.”